October 10, 2007

WIPO General Assembly adopted the PCDA proposals

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) member states adopted during the General Assembly on 28 September 2007 the recommendations made in June 2007 by the Provisional Committee on Proposals for a WIPO Development Agenda (PCDA). The recommendations include 45 proposals that cover six activity clusters: Technical Assistance […]

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October 10, 2007

ENDitorial: Montreal Privacy Week: Terra Incognita or Deja Vu?

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) More than 600 persons from 50 countries gathered in Montreal to participate to the 29th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, on 25-28 September 2007, making this year venue attended by a record number of interested parties. The theme of the conference, ‘Privacy Horizons: Terra […]

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November 5, 2008 · Blogs

New members EDRi

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) At the EDRi General Assembly of 25 October 2008 in Wien, Austria, EDRi welcomed 3 new members. Electronic Frontier Norway (EFN) is a Norwegian civil liberties and digital rights organization working to protect and promote freedom of expression, privacy, the use of open standards and media file […]

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November 3, 2005

Big Brother Awards presented in 4 countries

The sixth edition of Swiss Big Brother Awards ceremony was held in Zurich’s Rote Fabrik on 29 October 2005. The Swiss jury received 100 nominations in four categories: government, business, workplace and the special life-time achievement award. The financial services branch of Swiss Post, Postfinance, was awarded the business award for the illegal transfer of […]

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November 5, 2008

Finnish e-voting fiasco: votes lost

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A fully electronic voting system was piloted in the Finnish municipal elections on 26 October 2008. EDRi-member Electronic Frontier Finland (EFFi) had criticised the pilot program for years, recently releasing a report on its deficiencies. Today, the Ministry of Justice revealed that due to a usability issue, […]

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December 3, 2014 · Blogs

Dutch government: Let’s keep data retention mostly unchanged

On 18 November, the Dutch government finally issued its response to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruling in April 2014 that invalidated the data retention directive 2006/24/EC. Despite all the debate about the legality of data retention practices, the government wants to retain its current data retention legislation. The Ministry of […]

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December 3, 2014 · Blogs

Remembering Ville Oksanen

Ville Oksanen, Vice President and a founding member of Electronic Frontier Finland (Effi), passed away on Sunday 23 November 2014 in Helsinki from a sudden illness. He was 37 years old. Ville was one of the founders of EDRi’s Finnish member organisation Effi, and a key contributor throughout the existence of the association. He acted […]

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April 20, 2011 · Blogs

French Parliament issues a positive report on Net Neutrality

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Französisches Parlament veröffentlicht erfreulichen Bericht zur Netzneutralität | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.8_Franzoesisches_Parlament_veroeffentlicht_positiven_Bericht_zur_Netzneutralitaet] Last week, a trans-partisan/cross party parliamentary mission set up by the Economic Affairs committee of the French National Assembly released a report on Net Neutrality. After working on the report for more than five months and conducting dozens of […]

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March 28, 2012

France: Biometric ID database found unconstitutional

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Frankreich: Biometrie-Datenbank verfassungswidrig | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.6_Frankreich_Biometrie-Datenbank_verfassungswidrig?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120328] The French Constitutional Council found the law proposing the introduction of a new biometric ID for French citizens as unconstitutional. The law was referred to the Constitutional Council on 7 March 2012, by more than 200 members of the French Parliament, a day […]

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December 3, 2008

Sweden on the verge of passing the local IPRED law

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Sweden Government is to pass these days a controversial law that might give the entertainment industry some tools to track down those that illegally share copyrighted material on the Internet. The law, which is based on the European Union’s Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED), has […]

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May 22, 2019 · On the ground | Information democracy | Disinformation and electoral interference

Facebook lies to Dutch Parliament about election manipulation

On 15 May 2019, Facebook’s Head of Public Policy for the Netherlands spoke at a round table in the House of Representatives about data and democracy. The Facebook employee reassured members of parliament that Facebook has implemented measures to prevent election manipulation. He stated: “You can now only advertise political messages in a country, if […]

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December 5, 2005

Urgency procedure for draft French anti-terrorism law

The French government has decided to apply the urgency procedure to a new anti-terrorism draft law, with only one reading by each Chamber. The draft law was already passed by the National Assembly (French Lower House) on 29 November 2005 and will be examined by the French Senate in late December or early January 2006. […]

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